Faculty of the Department |
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Faculty |
Sean Kelly
Chair |
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Office Hours:
On leave Spring 2013 term
Research Interests: 20th century French and German philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of perception, Imagination and memory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of literature
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| Selim Berker |
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Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology |
Matthew Boyle
Placement Officer |
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Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Kant, German idealism |
| Cheryl Chen |
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Epistemology |
Warren Goldfarb
Head Tutor |
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, History of analytic philosophy (particularly Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Wittgenstein [early and late]), Interrelationships of logic and philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophical logic |
| Güven Güzeldere |
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Functional neuroimaging of change detection, Unconscious processing, Pain processing, Consciousness and qualia, Deception in animals, Artificial intelligence models |
Edward J. Hall
Acting Chair (Spring 2013 Term) |
Photo credit: Jon Chase, Harvard News Office |
Office Hours: Thursday 11:45 AM-1:15 PM
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of science |
| Rusty Jones |
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Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy |
| Frances Kamm |
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Office Hours: Tuesday 5:30-6:30 PM, Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Bldg, 79 JFK St., Room 344, or by appointment
Research Interests: Normative ethics, Bioethics, Practical ethics |
| Peter Koellner |
Photo credit: Katya Botchkina |
Office Hours:
On leave 2012-2013 academic year
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, Set theory, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of physics, Early analytic philosophy, Philosophy of logic and language |
| Christine Korsgaard |
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Office Hours: Thursday 3-4 PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Moral philosophy and its history, Practical reason, The nature of agency, Personal identity, and Human/animal relations |
| Douglas Lavin |
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Research Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of action, History of ethics, Philosophy of law |
| Jeffrey McDonough |
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Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, Philosophy of science, Medieval philosophy, Contemporary metaphysics and epistemology |
Richard Moran
Acting Director of Graduate Studies
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Moral psychology, The nature of testimony, Aesthetics, Philosophy of literature, later Wittgenstein |
| Bernhard Nickel |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of language, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind. |
| Mark Richard |
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Office Hours: Thursday 1-2:30 PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Philosophy of language, Philosophical logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology |
| Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. |
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Office Hours:
On leave 2012-2013 academic year
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, Political philosophy |
| Amartya Sen |
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Office Hours: Monday 10 AM-12 PM in Littauer Center 205 (10 AM-11 AM walk-ins, no appointment needed; 11 AM-12 PM by appointment only).
Research Interests: Economics, Political philosophy |
| Tommie Shelby |
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Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 PM
Research Interests: African American philosophy, Philosophical perspectives on race and racism, Social and political philosophy, Marxist social theory |
| Susanna Siegel |
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Office Hours:
On leave academic 2012-2013 year
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language, Epistemology |
Alison Simmons
MBB Adviser
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Office Hours:
On leave 2012-2013 academic year
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, Natural philosophy, Theories of mind, Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychology |
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Visiting Faculty 2012-2013 |
| Amelie Rorty |
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Boston University
(Fall term only)
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Affiliated Faculty |
| Gennaro Chierchia |
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Department of Linguistics |
| Michael Rosen |
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Department of Government |
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Other Harvard Faculty Offering Instruction in the Department |
| Richard Fallon |
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Harvard Law School
(Spring term only) |
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College Fellows & Postdoctoral Researchers |
| Eric Mandelbaum |
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Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Philosophy of psychology, Philosophy of mind, Cognitive science, Moral psychology, Philosophy of science, Epistemology |
| Farid Masrour |
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Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Philosophy of perception, Intersection of Philosophy of mind, Epistemology & the History of philosophy |
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Emeriti/ae |
| Stanley Cavell |
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Research Interests: Intersection of Analytical tradition with: the Continental tradition; American philosophy; the arts; and Psychoanalysis |
| Charles Parsons |
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Research Interests: Mathematical logic, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of logic and language, Kant, Historical figures in the foundations of mathematics |
| Hilary Putnam |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of natural science, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind |
| Israel Scheffler |
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Research Interests: Philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education |
| Gisela Striker |
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Research Interests: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy (especially epistemology and ethics), Aristotelian logic |
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